In California’s White Mountains, a bristlecone pine called Methuselah has held on for nearly 4,800 years, outlasting kingdoms ...

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over you above ten thousand feet, where the air thins and the trees stop ...

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For the person short on time, the answer is no. But the full story is an interesting tale of astronomy, cosmology, and just how hard it is to answer big questions. About 200 light years away, near the ...

This scaly world-record breaker looks much younger than she is. Or so scientists say. The approximate age of the oldest-known aquarium fish housed at a San Francisco Bay Area aquarium for the past 85 ...

The lungfish arrived in San Francisco on a steamship along with 230 other fish. Today, she’s the only living aquatic animal from that vessel She’s super-gentle, and doesn’t get overly excited. She ...

Forget the X Prize. What's so great about sending a couple of people 100 kilometers up and down in the sky anyway? A much more interesting and important goal for the future of humanity is the ...